The Truth on National TV Billy Graham's daughter was being
interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her
"How could God let something like this happen?"
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful
response.
She said, "I believe that God is deeply saddened by
this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to
get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to
get out of our lives.
And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has
calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His
blessing and his protection if we demand that He leave us
alone?"
I know there's been a lot of emails going around in regards
to 9/11/01, but this really makes you think. If you don't have
time, at least skim through it, but the bottom line is
something to think about in light of recent events (terrorist
attacks, school shootings, etc.).
Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare
(she was murdered, her body was found recently) complained she
didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school.
The Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal,
and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.
Then, Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our
children when they misbehave because their little
personalities would be warped and we might damage their
self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide) And we said,
an expert should know what he's talking about so we said OK.
Then, someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school
administrators said no faculty member in this school better
touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any
bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (There's
big difference between disciplining and touching, beating,
smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And we said, OK.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions
if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents.
And we said, OK.
Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be
boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons
all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they
desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them
at school. And we said, OK.
Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't
matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And
agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what
anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I
have a job and the economy is good.
And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures
of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth
appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said,
OK.
And then someone else took that appreciation a step further
and published pictures of nude children and then stepped
further still by making them available on the Internet. And we
said OK, they're entitled to their free speech.
And then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV
shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit
sex. And let's record music > that encourages rape, drugs,
murder, suicide, and satanic themes.
And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse
effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right
ahead.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no
conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it
doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and
themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can
figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE
REAP WHAT WE SOW."
"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed
in her classroom? " Sincerely, Concerned Student... AND
THE REPLY
"Dear Concerned Student,
I am not allowed in schools". Sincerely, God.
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then
wonder why the world's going to hell.
Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question
what the Bible says.
Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do
not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible
says.
Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but
still follow Satan who, by the way, also "believes"
in God. Funny how we are quick to judge but not to be judged.
Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail
and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending
messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely
through cyberspace, but the public discussion of God is
suppressed in the school and workplace.
Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday,
but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not
send it to many on your address list because you're not sure
what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending
it to them. Funny how I can be more worried about what other
people think of me than what God thinks of me.
Are you thinking?